[babypuncher]

This would have been plenty fair in my opinion, and may have even gotten me to buy Reddit premium.

Instead I'm just walking away from the platform and my own small community of 15,000 readers that I've spent 7 years building.

[ljm]

I'm not sure even that Reddit has a genuine value prop beyond being a new walled garden to gather data and serve ads. But it might be too big to truly fail, now, because newer generations of internet users have only experienced the feudal internet.

Once upon a time this was all served by RSS, forums, and niche websites. Reddit converted those communities to subreddits, Facebook took another slice of those. Discord and Slack portioned away other groups as did Tumblr and each one has attempted to establish a moat not just to keep competitors away, but to keep their users inside.